Ganoderic acid T inhibits tumor invasion in vitro and in vivo through inhibition of MMP expression.

Abstract

The traditional Chinese medicinal mushroom, Ganoderma lucidum, has been used in Asia for several thousand years for the prevention and treatment of a variety of diseases, including cancer. In previous work, we purified ganoderic acid T (GA-T) from G. lucidum [28]. In the present study, we investigate the functions of GA-T in terms of its effects on invasion in vitro and metastasis in vivo. A trypan blue dye exclusion assay indicates that GA-T inhibits proliferation of HCT-116 cells, a human colon carcinoma cell line. Cell aggregation and adhesion assays show that GA-T promotes homotypic aggregation and simultaneously inhibits the adhesion of HCT-116 cells to the extracellular matrix (ECM) in a dose-dependent manner.Wound healing assays indicate that GA-T also inhibits the migration of HCT-116 cells in a dose-dependent manner, and it suppresses the migration of 95-D cells, a highly metastatic human lung tumor cell line, in a dose- and time-dependent manner. In addition, GA-T inhibits the nuclear translocation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) and the degradation of inhibitor of kappaB-alpha (IkappaBalpha), which leads to down-regulated expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA). Animal and Lewis Lung Carcinoma (LLC) model experiments demonstrate that GA-T suppresses tumor growth and LLC metastasis and down-regulates MMP-2 and MMP-9 mRNA expression in vivo. Taken together, these results demonstrate that GA-T effectively inhibits cancer cell invasion in vitro and metastasis in vivo, and thus it may act as a potential drug for treating cancer.

• Authors: Nian-Hong Chen, Jian-Wen Liu, Jian-Jiang Zhong
• Journal: Pharmacological reports : PR (Pharmacol Rep) 2010 Jan-Feb Vol. 62 Issue 1 Pg. 150-63 ISSN: 2299-5684 [Electronic] Switzerland
• PMID: 20360625 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
• Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
• Protease Inhibitors
• RNA, Neoplasm
• ganoderic acid T
• Lanosterol
• Matrix Metalloproteinases
• Matrix Metalloproteinase 9

Topics

• Animals
• Antibiotics, Antineoplastic (pharmacology)
• Blotting, Western
• Cell Adhesion (drug effects)
• Cell Aggregation (drug effects)
• Cell Line, Tumor
• Cell Proliferation (drug effects)
• Cell Survival (drug effects)
• Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
• Humans
• Lanosterol (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology)
• Male
• Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 (metabolism)
• Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
• Matrix Metalloproteinases (biosynthesis)
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred C57BL
• Neoplasm Invasiveness
• Neoplasm Metastasis (prevention & control)
• Protease Inhibitors (pharmacology)
• RNA, Neoplasm (biosynthesis)
• Reishi (chemistry)
• Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Wound Healing (drug effects)